Following a report to the Direction départementale de la protection des populations (DDPP), a butcher’s shop in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, was inspected on December 31. The findings: thirteen breaches of health regulations were identified and the prefectural services decided to close the shop immediately on January 3, as reported by the newspaper Le Parisien.
The shop, which described itself as ‘100% halal’, sold meat from wild boar. ‘Fourteen wild boar carcasses and several pieces of vacuum-packed wild boar meat were found in a cold room,’ the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis told our journalists.
Customers are astonished and angry. They assure us that the butcher’s shop had never mentioned the sale of wild boar in its displays. Some regretted the closure of the butcher’s shop, others pointed out the unhygienic conditions on the premises.
The butcher’s shop, which also offered a restaurant and parcel service, had already been reported twice for health defects. In December, the inspectors found in particular the presence of pests, a ‘lack of manual hygiene’ and poor handling of the cold chain.
The butcher’s shop will remain closed until further notice until measures are taken to rectify the deficiencies.
Bobigny : Une boucherie « 100 % halal » fermée en urgence, elle vendait du sanglier